Determining the Amount of Gold in a Quartz Specimen

November 2004 by Chris Ralph

Desert Bonanza

July 1999
If you think all the vein gold near the surface has been dug up—think again! A weekend prospector recently came into the lab with a shoe-box full of samples that were from ten to fifty percent native crystalline gold on dirty white quartz.

Melman on Gold & Silver

November 2002
To paraphrase Shakespeare, “To war, or not to war, that is the question.” That was the question that dominated national and international headlines over the past month, at least those headlines that were not otherwise occupied by detailing information about one market collapse after another around the world. It is hard to know which was the more important story.

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

August 1999

Drywashing and Detecting for Eluvial Placer Gold Research is the Key to Success—Part II

October 2005
Before heading out to work the same old ground, or blindly seeking a previously unknown gold placer area to drywash or detect, maybe you would benefit from doing a little research.

Reserves and Resources Explained

February 2014
Reservers and resources are very important to prospectors and miners, but they may be vague terms to some.

Search for the Legendary Sierra Azul

June 2001
One of the most unique mining stories to derive from the days of the Spanish conquest of the Southwest is the legendary story of the Sierra Azul, or “Blue Mountain” of Arizona. The first reports of what some historians maintain is nothing more than mere myth, came in the middle of the seventeenth century, and it survived as a frontier tradition into the nineteenth century.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

January 2012
• IBLA rules against miner for "late" filing
• Wyoming appeals roadless decision
• Mercury reduction program slated for California
• Oregon wilderness
• Oregon miner prevails in lawsuit against Forest Service and District Ranger
• Canada pulls out of Kyoto Climate Treaty

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